Jury retires in Dave Lee Travis sex attacks trial

 
Standing trial: Dave Lee Travis
Lindsay Watling10 February 2014
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Jurors in the trial of Dave Lee Travis have been sent out to consider their verdicts.

Judge Anthony Leonard QC previously warned them to ignore the acquittal of William Roache last week as they deliberate the fate of the veteran Radio 1 DJ.

Travis is accused of a “determined” campaign of sex attacks on vulnerable, young women spanning four decades.

In his directions, the judge also told the jury of eight women and four men to put the charges faced by Rolf Harris and the flood of revelations surrounding Jimmy Savile out of their minds.

He stressed they must disregard the defendant’s celebrity status and try him based only on the evidence heard over the last four weeks.

Travis, 68, from Buckinghamshire, is known as DLT but charged under his real name David Griffin. He denies 13 indecent assaults between 1976 and 2002 and sexual assault by touching in 2008 involving 10 women and a girl of 15.

The trial, at Southwark crown court, continues.

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